93 rill-- Wilson lin.i.i.rix — Xn. .')(i. 



head tucked Ix'twecn the joint of -ts ample \vinii:s. and covered 

 with the sj^read of sliinins: scapular feathers. 



A policeman on nii^lit duty in tlu- ])ark was the only one in the 

 crowd that seemed at all aware of the interesting occurrence 

 that hapixMied night 1\ at this spot. He told us the birds re- 

 mained (juiet until alx)ut four o'clock in the morning, when the 

 noisv clattering recommenced in full force, continued for half 

 an hour or so. and then the assemh'ed host gradually broke u]), 

 each division de])arting separately cnid si)reading out over the 

 citv. souglu their day time haunt's. It would have been inter- 

 esting to learn how many more such roosts there were in and 

 about the eit\. and to know how large an area was nightly 

 drained of its Martins to supply each roost; but this was too 

 great a task for a few observers to do in one season. A week or 

 so more and all the Martins had left for the winter. I left this 

 city the following spring and so did not see this sight again. 



However. I hear from Mr. De \ ine. that the same scene saw 

 the recurrence of the roost the ne.'^-t summer of 1904 and again 

 in the same season of 1905. Without doubt, unless some radi- 

 cal change has taken place in the locality or status of the species, 

 as I ]>en these lines, the Martins are once again in possession of 

 the three little trees in the southeast corner of Washington 

 i'ark. ami are daily re-enacting what 1 have attempted herein to 

 describe. 



A GTJMPSE OF THE BIRDS OF SECOND LAKE. 

 COOS COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



UV CHARLES IT. ROGERS. 



Coos is the most northern county of New Hampshire and 

 occupies most of that state north of the White JNIountains. 

 l*ittsburg township, in its turn, covers the northern end of 

 Coos county, an end twenty-four miles long. The Connecticut 

 lakes are nominally four. Fourth Lake, a tiny pond and the 

 source of the Connecticut River, lies in northernmost Pittsburg 

 township next door to Canada. The infant river flows thence 

 to Third Lake a little below, next six miles through the forest 



